HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Implosions

Clearwater: Criss Angel Survives Hotel Implosion, Thanks to the Magic of Television

juliana — 2008-07-31T09:00:19-05:00

This here is a video from a person in the crowd who attended the implosion. (Note: Watch it without sound as the people cheering Criss on are annoying! Also start watching at about the 3:30 mark.)

So Criss Angel successfully escaped from his iron restraints inside the old Spyglass Hotel in Clearwater, FL just seconds before the hotel imploded. His stunt was actually shown live on A&E TV last night. But was it really live?

Hotel News Briefs :: Criss Angel To Implode Tonight...Maybe

juliana — 2008-07-30T17:15:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/spyglass_criss.jpg" class="imgborder">There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs.· <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/14/23386/3946/hotels/Criss_Angel_To_Perform_In_Florida_Hotel_Implosion_on_July_30th">Criss Angel's Hotel Implosion Trick</a>: Don't forget! The premiere of Criss Angel's MindFreak show is on A&E tonight and in it, Angel will do some stunt involving a hotel implosion in Florida. · <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/starwood-hotels--resorts-adnec/story.aspx?guid=%7BFF34CEEB-4AB0-412A-8EB7-8FAD3A8FC4A5%7D&dist=hppr">Element Hotels Go Overseas to Abu Dhabi</a>: Starwood Hotels announces the first Element Hotel for Abu Dhabi - the first to be introduced in the Europe, Africa and Middle East division. It will open in 2011 in the Capital Centre development. [Marketwatch]· <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/07/28/daily30.html">Biltmore to Get

Clearwater: Criss Angel To Perform In Florida Hotel Implosion on July 30th

juliana — 2008-07-15T09:20:16-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/spyglass_criss.jpg" class="imgborder">Attention-loving magician <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/criss%20angel">Criss Angel</a> will perform his latest stunt on Wednesday, July 30th in a hotel in Clearwater, Fla. just moments before the hotel is to be imploded.Angel and the A&E crew from his show "Mindfreak" heard the old Spyglass Hotel was going to be demolished and decided the implosion would make a perfect setting for a death-defying stunt. Here is how it's all supposedly going to go down:<blockquote>The plan is for him to be on about a fifth- or sixth-floor balcony, most likely chained to the outside for dramatic appeal. Then somehow he'll free himself, make it up to the roof, and be whisked away just in time for the building to implode. </blockquote>250 lucky (?)

PM Linkage: Did You Miss This?

juliana — 2007-11-15T17:41:51-05:00

<![CDATA[We must be operating on Bahamian-time still so our last post of the day will be an old-school, bland, photoless, colorless link dump. Consider it our New Yorker-style post for the day. Enjoy.· <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5305283.html">Someone may have sneaked into a Houston hotel just before it was imploded. Or maybe it was just a ghost sighting.</a> [Houston Chronicle] · <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203541/dutch-teen-arrested-habbo-hotel">Hotel Crime even happens in virtual hotels.</a> [VNU Net] · <a href="http://www.btnmag.com/businesstravelnews/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003673392">Expedia will start selling Intercontinental Hotel Group hotels such as Holiday Inns, Crowne Plazas, Hotel Indigos and Staybridge Suites</a> [BTN Mag] · <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1424268520071115">Housekeepers think luxury hotel beds are a pain, literally.</a> [Reuters] · <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2007/11/15/britney-runs-over-another-photographer/">Britney Spears runs over yet another paparrazi. This time at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.</a> [TMZ] · <a

Las Vegas: Frontier Implosion Video Is Romantic

markj — 2007-11-13T09:10:15-05:00

<![CDATA[ <object width="385" height="317"><param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/11elwecrA28&rel=1" name="movie"></param><embed width="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/11elwecrA28&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="317"></embed></object> Wow, HotelChatter member <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/trewil">trewil</a> was right, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+New+Frontier/ian/163439">The New Frontier</a> implosion was freakin' romantic. The structure was taken to the ground at 2:30 AM this morning, Pacific time, and though this video is 3 minutes long, it took less than ten seconds for the building to actually come down. From the looks of things, if you had a Tower Suite at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Wynn+Las+Vegas/local/7">Wynn Las Vegas</a> last night, on the far side of the hotel, you may have had a killer view of this implosion. Now it is time to get ready for the $5 billion mixed-use project modeled after New York's legendary Plaza Hotel -- Vegas